Wednesday: Hili dialogue

28 thoughts on “Wednesday: Hili dialogue”

1. All hail Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’!

   (Although who can argue that he could hold a candle in comparison to his father, Yuknoom the Great?)

2. The guy with the arc welder isn’t really causing himself any great danger, much less Darwin award territory.

   The weld flash looks spectacular but it’s typically only 50-80 volts or so. Every welder actually does that whenever they strike an arc to start welding. The worst he’s likely to get is some sparks landing in between his feet and the soles of his sandals (which is why I do all my welding in bare feet; stones – or sparks – that lodge in between your sandals and your feet are extraordinarily difficult to shake out. Even more so for safety boots, unless laced up snugly.)

   Yes you can burn yourself on the hot surfaces but there’s much more risk of nasty burns with gas welding – an oxy-acetylene flame is viciously hot.

   An angle grinder or a skilsaw are much more dangerous than an arc welder.

   cr

3. Thanks for phagocytosis clip. I am reading the new general audience book, an elegant defense, on the immune system by matt richtel and this short movie is really worth a thousand words.

4. That’s “The coward Robert Ford” who shot Jesse James, if my freinds from Missouri have their say.

5. 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

   It was a coldblooded murder, at least according to the Hollywood revisionism of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (which has always struck me as a bit on-the-nose and verbose as titles go):

   1. Brad Pitt is said to have had it in his contract that he would only sign on if it were agreed that the title of the film would not be changed.

   2. Sounds like a Victorian-era novel.

6. 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor and director (d. 2004)

   Brando’s only directorial effort I can recall was the western One-Eyed Jacks, in which Brando starred and took over the directorial duties at the last minute from Stanley Kubrick.

7. Will throw in my two cents on Jesse James as he was killed in his home in St. Joseph, Mo. not all that far from where I was from in Southwest Iowa. The house is a tourist attraction today.

   That dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard has laid poor Jesse in his grave.

   Mr. Howard was the name Jesse used at home.

   1. I visited Mr. Howard’s home in St. Joseph some years back. Worth a stop, IMO.

      1. Although I grew up only about 60 miles away from St. Joe in the southwest part of Iowa and have been by or through St. Joe many times, I never stopped at the place. The other direction, northwest about 75 miles is Omaha, Nebraska, a much larger destination for people living out in the middle of nowhere. Also, St Joe is not that far from Kansas City, on down I-29.

   2. “… where I was from in Southwest Iowa …”

      You know a town name of Redfield in that neck of the woods, Randy? I went with a farmer’s daughter from there for a while.

      1. Had never heard of Redfield but after looking it up, can understand why. A very small town of maybe 835. East of Des Moines and a bit north of I-80. Farmer’s daughter would be about it around there. Where I am from in Southwest Iowa has a population of about 5000 but still nothing to write home about.

         1. You city-slicker, you. 🙂

            1. Yes, their claim to fame was – it was the home of Glenn Miller. Although I think he was smart and left while still in diapers. Not far from us, Corning, Iowa, was the home of Johnny Carson. You know you lived in a small town when the street you lived on was Schenck Ave. Not named after me, but my grandfather.

            2. This is a late comment, so you might not see it, but is your surname pronounced “shank” or “shenk” (German pronunciation…assuming Schenck is German).

            3. It is Shank. Just like the leg part. I have seen others pronounce in other ways but this is it for us. I assume German but do not know any relatives there and frankly don’t know where the ancestors came from. I think it was a great grandfather or maybe further back. When my mothers name was McFarland I just was never very interested in those things. Just U.S.A. heinz 57.

8. Awwwww, that story about Dean and Nala is just wonderful. Really makes my morning.

   “She spends half the time sunbathing. She doesn’t even help me cycle. She’s broken. I need a new cat.”

   1. +1

      Really sweet story. Now I want to bicycle around the world.

      1. I don’t want to bicycle around the world…

         I want to bicycle around the world, discover a kitten like two hours in, make pals, and then have him with me on the rest of my journey. Also, we wouldn’t stay in tents, but four and five star hotels.

      2. (I have expensive tastes and am not one for roughing it. Also, I hate bugs. Comfort is king, and what adds even more comfort to a room in a five star hotel? I wonderful kitten sleeping next to you!)

         1. 🙂

            When do we leave?

9. “They do not sow neither do they reap…”

   Hili is right, that is a tasty morsel, as are many lines in the King James Bible. Since William Shakespeare is contemporaneous with the bible’s creation, I wonder if he had anything to do with writing it. According to Wikipedia, Shakespeare references several versions of the bible in his writings, Geneva Bible, Bishop’s Bible, Rheims New Testament. But, seemingly not the King James. The translation was done by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the Church of England, which I must assume Shakespeare was. Maybe he was one of the 47.

   1. There are people who believe that he not only worked on it, but that he “signed” his work: Shakespeare was 46 when the translation was finished; if you look at the 46th Psalm, the 46th word from the beginning is “shake;” the 46th word from the end is “spear.”

      1. You’ve made me a believer. Although, there are always those bothersome few who would be able to find the words, “…didn’t want to help us”, at an equally interesting distance from some point in the text. 😎

10. I somewhat question the genealogy bit: “grue” is *crane*, not stork. This doesn’t directly affect the discussion, but makes me wonder …

11. Why can’t Mayans have normal names.

    1. I think there may be something in those ‘ancient astronaut’ stories after all.

       Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’ definitely sounds like Klingon to me.

       cr

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